E-co-affectivity Exploring Pathos At Life's Material Interfaces - Marjolein Oele

Offers An Interdisciplinary Investigation Of Affectivity In Various Forms Of Life.e-co-affectivity Is A Philosophical Investigation Of Affectivity In Various Forms Of Life: Photosynthesis And Growth In Plants, Touch And Trauma In Bird Feathers, The Ontogenesis Of Human Life Through The Placenta, The Bare Interface Of Human Skin, And The Porous Materiality Of Soil. Combining Biology, Phenomenology, Ancient Greek Thought, New Materialisms, Environmental Philosophy, And Affect Studies, Marjolein Oele Thinks Through The Concrete, Living Places That Show The Receptive, Responsive Power Of Living Beings To Be Affected And To Affect. She Focuses On These Localized Interfaces To Explain How Affectivity Emerges In Places That Are Always Evolving, Creative, Porous, And Fluid.